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boviculture

boviculture noun: the rearing and care of cattle.

Noun

boviculture (uncountable)

  1. The rearing and care of cattle.
    • No discussion of boviculture would be complete without due and proper consideration of Taurus, the bull.1936, Ward William Adair, The Road to New York, page 18

Origin of boviculture

From Latin bos (“cattle”) + cultura (“cultivation”); stem ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws which also gave Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), and English cow.

Questions about boviculture

What does boviculture mean?
Boviculture means the rearing and care of cattle.
What part of speech is boviculture?
Boviculture is a noun.

Words near boviculture in the dictionary

  1. bovicidal
  2. bovicide
  3. bovicides
  4. bovicin
  5. bovicins
  6. boviculture
  7. bovid
  8. bovidomorph
  9. bovidomorphs
  10. bovids
  11. Bovie

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